Bitnami is quickly becoming the trusted source for secure and up to date server based apps. Bitnami essentially offer an app store for open source apps that can run anywhere: on premise, as containers or in the public cloud. Bitnami ensure images are patched and up to date so they can be trusted. They are…

One of the benefits of building your application on Azure Infrastructure services is that you can completely control your virtual machines, so it’s much easier to lift and shift an application you have deployed elsewhere or if you are deploying an application that requires components not available on Azure App Service. It is important, however,…

One of the great benefits of hosting your application or website on Microsoft Azure is the ability to leverage Microsoft’s investments in security and data protection. Microsoft embed security best practices into every layer of Azure from development techniques to intrusion detection and prevention and distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) mitigation. Leveraging this makes sense as…

If you’ve been wondering how to get started with Big Data solutions and not really sure where to go then Microsoft Azure has a solution that will get you going in less than 15 minutes. The Hortonworks Sandbox has tonnes of tutorials built in and you can create a sandbox environment on Azure with just a…

The Internet as a Backbone The internet has changed everything and we no longer see it as a tool to discover and gather information but a central backbone of our every day lives, in fact, we are slowly becoming dependent on it. It’s a scary thought but think about how we socialise with our friends,…

The Tech a CEO Needs to Know Cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure offer a very quick and simple way for software companies to run their business and access a global customer base. These companies who traditionally delivered their solution via CD or some other distribution medium are looking to the cloud as a way to…

Windows 10 represents a truly unique opportunity for developers to target as many devices as possible with their code. The new Universal App Platform within Windows 10 will allow developers to build apps using a single core api surface and then target phones, tablets, desktops, Xbox, IoT devices and even hololens. With the upgrade path to Windows…

Microsoft Ireland are giving away an Xbox One with Kinect each month for the next three months and all you have to do is complete one of the following Microsoft Virtual Academy courses: Windows 10 Technical Preview for IT Pros Networking Fundamentals Getting started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start Understanding Active Directory Microsoft Azure IaaS…

One of the big challenges that organisations face in this new Mobile First, Cloud First world is that not all of the line of business applications that the organisation uses have been built in this modern way, i.e. they have not been built to use cloud technologies or to target the types of mobile devices…

2014 has been a massive year for Microsoft Azure. We have seen Azure show up as the only leader across PaaS, IaaS and Storage according to Gartner and is now positioned very strongly against competitors like Amazon and Google, in fact in terms of data centre reach Azure is twice the size of AWS and…